Arrivabene disappointed to miss out on one-two

Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene was left "really disappointed" to miss out on a one-two in the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen both made spectacular starts to run first and second respectively at the start of the race, and duly pulled away from Nico Rosberg's Mercedes. However, with both enjoying a comfortable advantage, Raikkonen was then hit with an MGU-K failure.

Nico Hulkenberg's front wing failure saw the Safety Car deployed and Raikkonen quickly fell back through the field before having to retire the car. While unhappy with the reliability issue, Arrivabene praised Raikkonen's performance.

"I’m really disappointed because, to be honest, Kimi was really good today," Arrivabene said. "Both of them were, especially at the start. This is Formula One and sometimes these things happen. Sometimes you win because the other team scores an own goal, but it’s part of the game. We have to accept this.

"Again, congratulations to Kimi for what he did today, but unfortunately something happened and we didn’t have the double. It will be a good occasion to have it in the future, so it’s another challenge."

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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